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COMMUNITY A2 • HERMISTONHERALD.COM THREE MINUTES WITH ... WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2019 HERMISTON HISTORY TANYA KENNEDY Dean of students at Desert View Elementary School When and why did you move to Hermiston? I moved to Hermiston in 2012 after my husband and I got married. We moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the hopes to live in Portland. However, we landed in Hermiston with the support of his parents. What is your favorite place to eat in Hermiston? Ixtapa HH fi le photo Brothers Morgan Russell, left, and Joshua Russell have a snowball fi ght in front of their house in 1994. What do you like to do in your spare time? I like to spend time with my husband and kids as well as craft. What surprises you about Hermiston? The people. The people in Hermiston are amazing! They are kind and respectful. The city also sur- prises me and a lot of people back east! It is very hard to explain how small Hermiston is yet so big at the same time! What was the last book you read? ”Lead Fearlessly, Love Hard” by Linda Cliatt-Wayman What website or app do you use most other than Facebook? I have a few games that I like to play daily on my phone. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? Germany! I studied German in both high school and college and it has always been my dream to visit. What is the funniest thing that’s ever hap- pened to you? Hmm… that is tough. I’m not really sure. What is one of your goals for the next 12 months? Work on the last few steps of getting my adminis- trative license. What is your proudest accomplishment? My two kids, Ryker and Kiya. 25 YEARS AGO DEC. 13, 1994 An Army bomb squad removed a homemade explosive from the park- ing lot of a north Hermiston super- market Thursday. “What they did was pulled the fuse, brought it back here and destroyed it,” said Army spokesman Ken Cooper. Ted Owens, manager of the Shop ‘n Kart, said a customer had found a ball about four inches in diame- ter with what may have been a fuse sticking out of it near the store’s exit doors. Owens called the Hermiston Police Department. Police cordoned off signifi cant portions of the lots in front of the supermarket and Coast- to-Coast Hardware next door for more than four hours. Cooper called the device a “home- made fi recracker,” composed of gun- powder and a timed fuse, that was no more powerful than a M-80 fi rework. 2) The Stanfi eld Public Library has taken the on-ramp to the infor- mation superhighway. The city council agreed to distrib- ute money for a computer network that will allow access to the Internet, a worldwide network of computer bulletin boards and data. For $75 a year, the library will use the “Compass” network software and a local phone line set up by the Ore- gon Department of Transportation to access a computer server in Salem. 50 YEARS AGO VOLUME 113 • NUMBER 50 DEC. 11, 1969 Chris Rush | Publisher • crush@eomediagroup.com • 541-278-2669 Jade McDowell | News Editor • jmcdowell@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4536 Printed on Jessica Pollard | Reporter • jpollard@eastoregonian.com, 541-564-4534 recycled newsprint Tammy Malgesini | Community Editor • tmalgesini@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4539 Annie Fowler | Sports Editor • afowler@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4542 Jeanne Jewett | Multi-Media consultant • jjewett@hermistonherald.com • 541-564-4531 Audra Workman | Multi-Media consultant • aworkman@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4538 Dawn Hendricks | Circulation assistant • dhendricks@eastoregonian.com • 541-564-4530 To contact the Hermiston Herald for news, advertising or subscription information: • call 541-567-6457 • e-mail info@hermistonherald.com • stop by our offi ces at 333 E. Main St. • visit us online at: hermistonherald.com The Hermiston Herald (USPS 242220, ISSN 8750-4782) is published weekly at Hermiston Herald, 333 E. Main St., Hermiston, OR 97838, (541) 567-6457. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by mail Wednesdays Digital + e-Edition .............................. $39/year Full Access (print and digital) ............. $49/year Periodical postage paid at Hermiston, OR. Postmaster, send address changes to Hermiston Herald, 333 E. Main St., Hermiston, OR 97838. Member of EO Media Group Copyright ©2019 CORRECTIONS It is the policy of the Hermiston Herald to correct errors as soon as they are discovered. Incorrect information will be corrected on Page 2A. Errors commited on the Opinion page will be corrected on that page. Corrections also are noted in the online versions of our stories. Please contact the editor at editor@hermistonherald.com or call (541) 564-4533 with issues about this policy or to report errors. 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Many letters and telegrams have been sent to President Nixon, Gover- nor Tom McCall and the state’s Con- gressional delegation giving unani- mous support of the Army’s plan to store various types of war gases at the Umatilla Army Depot. Leading the campaign to show support for the Army plan is the Hermiston Coordinating Council headed by Joe Burns. The council is composed of the heads of the city’s top civic orga- nizations including the chamber of commerce, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, junior chamber of commerce, the mayor and city manager. Each of these men had conferred with mem- bers of their groups and were all unanimous in their feeling that the storage of such materials at UAD posed no problem in this area. “This has been done for years and it has created no problem of any kind,” one council member stated. “This is what an Army depot is for.” BTW Continued from Page A1 gift certifi cates at several downtown businesses, as well as merchandise and services at Affordable Family Eyewear. For more informa- tion, call 541-567-3790, visit www.affordablefam- ilyeyewear.com or search Facebook. • • • If you don’t have health insurance through your employer, this is your last week to sign up for cover- age for 2020, and get help HH fi le photo Michael Rupe creates marshmallow snowfl akes with his teacher Joanne Crutcher at Sunset Elementary School in 1994. 75 YEARS AGO 100 YEARS AGO DEC. 14, 1944 DEC. 13, 1919 The safe return of Lt. Leonard Keller to American lines near St. Nazaire, following his escape from the Germans, was the glad tidings received by Mrs. Keller and young son here this week. Lt. Keller, who is a pilot of a transport plane, was reported missing as of Oct. 30. No detailed news of his escape has been received but the fact that he is safe behind American lines is quite suffi cient. 2) With strict orders coming from the state War Price and Rationing offi ce, the local board will be forced to view requests for extra fuel oil and gasoline with more concern. The board has been informed that its duty is to cut consumption, whenever humanly possible, to a minimum. F. C. McKenzie, chief clerk here, announced Wednesday that both gas and oil are available for emergency cases but urged that no requests for extra rations be made unless abso- lutely necessary. Mr. McKenzie also advises that applications for supplemental gaso- line must be accompanied by mile- age ration slips given with A books or they will be returned. Also, employers who sign appli- cations for supplemental gas for employees must state specifi cally the number of miles the employee must drive to work and the number of days he is employed. On Monday Mrs. Isabel Kennedy was taken to Pendleton by Deputy Sheriff Joe Blakely on complaint that she was mentally unbalanced. After being examined on arrival there she was committed to the state hospital. For several weeks the lady had been acting queerly, and her wander- ings and utterances had irritated peo- ple on the West Side, where she lived with her husband and family a cou- ple of doors west of the Auditorium building. She had hallucinations that she was some sort of a Messiah, but seemed to be harmless. Her mental condition seemed, however, to have taken on a tragic aspect Sunday evening, for on going on one of her visits to a nearby house in order to tell the occupants who she was and what was going to happen, she drew from the folds of her dress a huge butcher knife and made a pass or two at one of the occupants who had asked her to leave. After fl ourishing the deadly weapon for a moment or so, she took her departure. The next morning a complaint was fi led with Justice of the Peace Dodd, and later she was taken away by the deputy. The case is a sad one, for it leaves three small children minus a moth- er’s care and love. The Kennedys have been here for some months, during which time Mr. Kennedy has worked on the section. paying for it, in the insur- ance marketplace. People needing insur- ance can shop for plans, sign up and apply for a sub- sidy through oregonhealth- care.gov. The deadline to apply for coverage for next year is 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15. For help signing up, call 1-855-268-3767 toll free. • • • Nashville recording art- ist Cale Moon is swinging through town again. See next week’s Hermiston Herald for a story about his Dec. 21 performance at The Pheasant Blue Col- lar Bar & Grill. The eve- ning crescendos with the (F)ugly Sweater Party. For questions, call The Pheas- ant at 541-567-3022. • • • Desert View Elemen- tary School is our fi nal spotlight school of the year, after a year-long project to highlight local schools. See page A2 for a “Three Min- utes With” feature about a Desert View staff member, and page A15 for photos from Desert View’s holi- day concert. • • • The menu for the Har- kenrider Senior Activ- ity Center on Thursday is roast beef, corn, baked potato, fruit and birthday cake by Sun Terrace. Fri- day is chili dogs, potato salad and apple dessert. Monday is three tacos, chips and salsa and des- sert. Tuesday is beef stew, biscuits, fruit and des- sert. Next Wednesday is chicken fried steak, pea salad, fruit and dessert. The senior center will be closed the week of Christ- mas and on New Years Day. — You can submit items for our weekly By The Way column by emailing your tips to editor@hermiston- herald.com.
